Opinion: Guest columnists share thoughts on female sexuality
November 15, 2010 | Volume 206 | Number 60 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
MONDAY
Football
Arnaud’s season, career likely over By Jake.Lovett iowastatedaily.com
BOULDER, Colo. — Paul Rhoads said his senior quarterback was “devastated.” Minutes before, Austen Arnaud gingerly limped his way into the ISU locker room with the help of two assistant coaches. On the way up the hill, he stopped and hugged family members. His coach found out the news from team doctors before he left the locker room. The quarterback’s knee was “loose,” the injury severe. Arnaud’s season and career as the ISU signal caller were likely over.
“I had to walk back in there and give him a big hug,” Rhoads said. “He’s just devastated.” During the fourth quarter of Iowa State’s 34-14 loss to Colorado on Saturday, Arnaud was sacked, got his legs twisted Arnaud around themselves, leaving him crumpled on the field, motionless and in pain. On the play, Arnaud fumbled the ball away, and it appeared that he just let go. Rhoads thought the pain was too much and Arnaud couldn’t hang on. No one knew at the time that it might be the
final time he was on the field after being the program’s starter for three years. “He’s given his heart and soul to this program,” Rhoads said. “He did it today — he was playing on a badly sprained ankle today — and your heart just goes out to the young man.” Arnaud was 15-of-23 on Saturday and accounted for 136 yards through the air. He ran the ball four times for eight yards, but was sacked five times, including his final play, dropping his rushing total to -26 yards. For his career, Arnaud will end up as the
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Service
Freeze Iowa State
Students ‘freeze’ campus For two minutes, a portion of the ISU campus will seemingly freeze in time at noon Monday. At least that’s the illusion a first-year honors program group intends to create. Inspired by a similar event at Grand Central Station in New York City and was organized by Improv Everywhere, participants of “Freeze Iowa State,” are encouraged to remain motionless for two minutes on campus, primarily on Central Campus. The event was created to complete a “make up a holiday” assignment in a first-year honors program course, said Jordan Mandernach, freshman in chemical engineering. “We wanted to do something special,” Mandernach said. “We hope to have at least 700 people to actually come to Central Campus [to] freeze and then make it a yearly event.” Identical events have been arranged to occur simultaneously with the ISU event at the University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, Central College, Wartburg College, Iowa Western Community College and Hawkeye Community College. Participants are encouraged to use cell phone alarms on vibrate to ensure the group freezes and unfreezes at the same time, according to the Facebook group. Daily Staff
Agriculture
Lucas Fisher, in Troop 534, discusses animal science during the Merit Badge University event Saturday. Boy Scouts attended different classes and learned various activities throughout the day all over campus. Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily
Boy Scouts visit campus
Troops participate in Merit Badge University By Matt.Wettengel iowastatedaily.com Approximately 350 Boy Scouts came to Iowa State on Saturday for an educational experience of their own. Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity, took the lead in organizing this year’s Merit Badge University, a program which brings Boy Scouts from the Broken Arrow District, which includes Hamilton,
Green, Boone and Story counties, said John Yasenko, Broken Arrow district executive for Boy Scouts of America. The Boy Scouts came to work with the 105 volunteers that Alpha Phi Omega organized to work at MBU. The volunteers ranged from Alpha Phi Omega counselors to professors and student volunteers, who provided the information and expertise required to help the Scouts earn one of the 31 merit badges offered. The badges offered ranged from space exploration to automative
Soil
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Badges offered at Merit Badge University
Animal science Architecture Athletics Automotive maintenance Aviation Bird studies Chemistry Citizenship in the nation Citizenship in the world Communications Computers Energy Engineering
Environmental science Fingerprinting First aid Forestry Journalism Mammal study Nature Photography Plant study Reptile and amphibian study Soil and water conservation Space exploration Veterinary medicine
Diversity
Researcher disproves past theories By Nyajuok.Deng iowastatedaily.com
Diwali celebrates culture Festival gives taste of Indian celebration
Songs and cheering filled the Great Hall of the Memorial Union to celebrate an Indian wedding — the theme of the 2010 Diwali festival. Diwali, which signifies the removal of darkness with light and the victory of good over evil, means festival of lights. The celebration was hosted by Indian Students’ Association on Saturday. “The night was very energetic,” said Yisheng Wu, graduate student in biochemistry. “I really enjoyed the festivities,” Wu said. Weddings celebrate togetherness and is a time for family and friends. Like weddings, Diwali is also a time for community. This year at Iowa State, Diwali night was a marriage of cultures. The night began with a traditional Indian dance praising the Hindu god Ganesha.
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By Whitney.Sager iowastatedaily.com It was once considered only a male’s area of study, but this way of thinking has changed. Agricultural colleges are seeing an increase in enrollment of female students, proving that females are just as important in the industry as males are — the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is no exception. “I think that, just as in any field, women should feel that they have an equal opportunity,” said Samantha Blakley, senior in agriculture and life sciences education. “There are a lot of things women can bring to the table in agriculture.” Between 1987 and 2000, the CALS has seen an overall increase in student enrollment, specifically in female students, according to a CALS newsletter. This semester the female enrollment in the CALS is nearly equal to male enrollment, with female enrollment at 1,535 and male enrollment at 1,763. Female students are choosing to
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Engineering
Program studies soil behavior
By Jaleesa.Epps iowastatedaily.com
Iowa State’s Robert Ewing discovered why past theories attempting to predict how long it takes for a contaminated site to be freed of contamination are far too optimistic. Scientists trying to predict how long contaminated soils and rocks will stay polluted have been using wrong formulas in the process, according to an ISU study. The rates actually vary according to how porous and connected the rocks are. Ewing, assistant scientist of agronomy, has been working with soil around the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory near Richland, Wash., which was used during the Cold War by the United States to try to produce plutonium. Large quantities of uranium stored in the tanks at the site leaked into the surrounding soil. Scientists have overestimated how quickly the contaminated soil will move into the Columbia River and free the area of soil and rock pollution, Ewing said. Ewing said the pollutions gets in the
Field sees increase of women
By Elisse.Lorenc iowastatedaily.com When it comes to construction, the geotechnical and materials engineering graduate program focuses on what’s below the surface, not to what’s above it. “Before you design everything on the structure because you usually see the structures on top of the ground,” said Mohamma Fotouhi, graduate in civil, construction and environmental engineering. The program, which consists of both students and faculty, takes a look at soil behavior and how natural phenomena such as earthquakes can affect these infrastructures. “A structural engineer will use materials like concrete and steel to build with, and those materials are Haema Nilakanta, senior in mathematics, dances in a classical Indian dance during Diwali Night. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily
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